Tag: Symmetry
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Moving antimatter beyond the lab
Moving antimatter beyond the lab For decades, antimatter experiments have been bound to a single place: the laboratory in which the particles are produced and trapped. At CERN’s Antimatter Factory, antiprotons are routinely produced, decelerated and confined in Penning traps, where electric and magnetic fields are used to store charged particles for high-precision studies. Yet
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Emmy Noether: the mathematician who changed the face of physics
Emmy Noether: the mathematician who changed the face of physics On a warm summer evening, a visitor to 1920s Göttingen, Germany, might have heard the hubbub of a party from an apartment on Friedländer Way. A glimpse through the window would reveal a gathering of scholars. The wine would be flowing and the air buzzing